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It took awhile for them to find their foothold in mainstream America, but when Alphaville released their debut single, “Big in Japan,” on January 12, 1984, they were an instant sensation just about everywhere else in the world, landing in...

Earlier this week, we gave you the 411 on Rhino’s upcoming box set reissue of New Order’s MOVEMENT, and we also told you about how – in advance of the album’s original release – the band released a handful of...

56 years ago today, Cliff Richard and The Shadows landed atop the UK Singles Chart with the title track of Cliff’s equally successful film, Summer Holiday . Written by Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett and produced by Norrie Paramor, “Summer...

Let us die young or let us live forever We don't have the power, but we never say never... Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd from Alphaville join us to talk about the new Super Deluxe Edition of FOREVER YOUNG. Tune...

Aside from his 2018 album THE TREE OF FORGIVENESS, which debuted in the Top Five of the Billboard 200 album chart (and fell off the chart a couple weeks later), John Prine could never really be said to have had...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Greg Norton, the man who played bass for the late, great Minneapolis band Hüsker Dü. Do you remember? Sure you do: he and his bandmates Grant Hart and Bob Mould delivered such classic tunes...

It was on this date in 1955 that the great Charlie Parker officially became the late , great Charlie Parker, and the fact that his demise occurred when he was all of 34 years old is a surprise only to...

Today we celebrate the birthday of James Taylor, master of “laid-back adult contemporary music,” as it was once described on The Simpsons, and that reference brings us to how we’ve decided to pay tribute to Mr. Taylor on this important...

55 years ago this week – the official anniversary was yesterday, actually, but we were out of the office – Mose Allison released his third album for Atlantic Records, but many would argue that it was the first truly classic...